Our heroine, the mouthy, trashy Shiraz Bailey Wood, aged 15, tells it like it is in her totally amazing diary. Her parents are broke, her earrings of choice are massive gold hoops, and she's ready to rebel against being a chav (chavs are working-class folks who fancy American hip-hop fashion, bruv). The series follows our girl Shiraz Bailey Wood (yeah...Shiraz like the wine; Bailey as in 's Irish Cream...cos her mum is classy like that) as she figures out what in the bleeding hell to do with her life...and where the gold chain–wearing Wesley Barrington Bains II fits into it, of course! Choice quote (on auditioning for reality talent show):
Ten pounds flaming ninety-two pence we spent on those matching red leg warmers and devil horns, then we only get one verse into "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado and this snotty-looking judge in trousers so tight you could see the outline of his trouser snake tells me I'm singing like someone strangling a donkey.
Yeah, BARE JOKES, bruv. Jog on.
Um, yeah. Author Grace Dent (whose website is proper stacked) has written six of these! Diary of a Chav is out in the U.S. and Slinging the Bling (as Posh and Prejudice) is dropping here in December. I don't know if the others will be making it stateside, so I'mma order them all from Amazon UK (ooh! or I'll buy used imports on Amazon), cos Shizza is proper hilarious, and it is not even remotely possible for me to express how totally poppin' these books are.
Check awesome sketch show Little Britain's take on chavviness:
Hee hee! Also, it is 100 percent necessary for you to go to Dent's site and check the kidz' comments on the American cover for the first book!
Let's just say that the fangirls don't really approve. And now, I'm off to score some more Shizza books!
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